Chris Taylor has a new title available from our pals at Victory Point Games. Moonbase Alpha pits two players against each other in a retro science fiction style game of lunar conquest. Each player leads a corporation with much to gain and, possibly, much more to lose by controlling the moon and her precious resources. Yet this isn’t just a battle of troops and armored vehicles but a financial conflict as well as players look to defeat their opponent not only on the moonscape and in the stock market as well! Moonbase Alpha looks like a bit of a throwback to the classic Meta/Micro games of the past with plenty of modern concepts of play. The title is available today and can be had for $18.95 in the polybag, or 27.95 for the boxed edition with a mounted map. You can order the mounted map separately for $5.50 but if you’re going to do that you may as well drop the couple of extra bucks and get the whole shebang in the box!
From VPG:
The two men knelt in the shadow of the rock outcropping and gazed at the destruction in the crater below them. Combat reporters, they made their living with words, but this time words failed them. The ambush had been perfectly executed. For less than an hour of soundless fury, moondust had erupted below them as the well-hidden crawlers, MCUs, and PMC soldiers of the Luna Mining Corp poured fire into the exposed ranks of the troops and MCUs of Mond Bergbau AG. Now as the dust drifted lethargically down, the two men could see wreckage and death spread out before them across the lunar surface.
Moonbase Alpha is a simulation of lunar combat in an alternate history between two exo-planetary private corporations that have hired private “security” companies to enforce their territorial and intellectual property rights. In Moonbase Alpha, the first player to inflict enough casualties on his or her opponent to drive their stock price down or earn enough profit to maximize their own stock price wins a major victory. The corporation with the highest stock price at the end of negotiations wins a minor victory.
What’s In The Box?:
• One 16-page full-color rules booklet • One 11” x 17” game map • 78 thick, double-sided, multi-shaped game pieces • 25 upgrade cards • 2 Corporation data sheets • 12 Plastic suppression discs • 4 six-sided 12mm dice • One 11″ x 17″ mounted, two-sided, jigsaw-cut game map • One bright red, 9 1/4″ x 5 7/8″ Standard cardboard VPG game box • One beautiful box cover sleeve • One “Wipes-A-Lot” napkin • One charcoal dessicant packet
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